David Savage has this article in the LA Times on the Florida juvenile LWOP cases. His description of Sullivan's crime is, "Joe Sullivan was 13 years old when he and two older boys broke into a home, where they robbed and raped an elderly woman." (Emphasis added.) The description from CJLF's brief (citations omitted) is this:

In 1989, Joe Sullivan, then age 13, burglarized the home of an elderly woman along with two accomplices.... Later that day, Sullivan and one of the accomplices returned to the home. While the accomplice distracted the woman at the front door, Sullivan began to enter through another door. Ibid. He forced his way in as she resisted the entry. He covered her head, removed her clothes, beat her, raped her vaginally and orally, and threatened to kill her. The identification of Sullivan, rather than the accomplice, as the perpetrator was made by the victim's recognition of his voice, both a neighbor and a police officer who saw him running from the house, and his palm print in the bedroom....  Sullivan had been found guilty of 17 crimes in the prior two years, including several felonies, one of which was a burglary.... During a previous juvenile detention, he had assaulted other clients.